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@Mezanti Yeah it shouldn't be rocket science. Just give someone normal, self help advice independent of non-duality but also give them non-duality advice. I know that's what I want. The dynamic of asking questions and getting answers on this forum differs from that of a student asking his zen master for a question. In order for the student to be a student, he has to go through intense practices, prove his commitment to the task of getting enlightenment. Therefore when a student asks his zen master for advice or a question, the student is seeking specifically for a non-dual answer. That isn't the case in on this forum. We just have a bunch of people on the internet. Talking about non-duality is a minefield, must be done carefully. I like instructions of practice or very common traps/experiences to be focuses of discussions, rather than too much conceptualising. This isn't to say I think talking about non-duality is wrong or to assert what people should be talking about at all, I just stating what my current preferences are in terms of what interests me or bores me. If you want to read something on non-duality, listen to Leo or read a non-duality book. The Book of Not Knowing, Kriya Secrets Revealed and whatever other books you want. Imma probably keep reading Peter Ralston for now.

On the bright side I'll have two doses of spiritual crack 5 days apart.

@d0ornokey I fit mine reasonably well. MBTI is a somewhat good rule of thumb, not divine revelation. Examining the cognitive functions, different axes, different dichotimies in typology is explanatory to a degree of people and yourself. But in all honestly I haven't found much of a use for it. I found it interesting and useful when I first heard about it and the information was novel to me, as it gave me mental reassurance/validation that it's ok to be different from the majority. A while ago I made this playlist of good videos on MBTI for myself to watch. The first video and second video in the playlist overlap in material, otherwise its pretty good. If you want to learn how to determine someone's cognitive functions from their 4 letters it's pretty easy. But just know that you can't do a simple/linear reading of the order in which the functions are someone's stack and expect to understand someone in a reductionistic way. There's a good video series on each type as well

@Ponder Yeah I've basically listened to all the content he has at this point. I'm yet to see someone who could so eloquently describe non-duality, honestly his explanations were so good and so clear. I've listened to him so many times I need to move on. Recently however I've found myself becoming more obsessed with Peter Ralston as I've now started reading his book properly. I really like Mooji as well.

@Fountainbleu Its a bit odd for you to be so sensitive to even green tea and not be able to handle it.

This @Beard When you enter a state beyond all concepts and words, you'll see.

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None of the above. Me telling you that gives you more information about my age funny enough @7thLetter

@Serotoninluv To make an observation of something the observer has to interact with it in some way, otherwise the observer will remain in a state of not having an observation. This is a no duh statement. I suppose a question I've had about Quantum Mechanics is what is the nature of the observation, what sort of interaction is going on. When I first heard of quantum mechanics I initially thought that in order to do the observation, we are interacting with a system in some blatantly coarse, physical way which directly changes the state of the system. Like if you physically touch something you change the state of that something, and I thought something like that was going on. But it seems that is not the case, and if there is some interaction between the observer and observed it's not as simple as that. I remember the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment being interesting.

Who's right? To say someone is right and say someone else is wrong, we have to construct some sense of objective reality. With our normal scientific assumptions, most people would just say "the guru wasn't levitating but his mind gave him the illusion that he was" as a consequence of deeming the camera to be an accurate measure of objective reality. When it comes to contemplating things and etc, perhaps one of the best things you can do is look at the world with a high consciousness clarity and muted monkey mind. The type of clarity which is just totally present with everything in your experience. You've experienced this before and know what it looks like. Like when it comes to what clarity might look like, one example I find easy to write about is just about looking at your thoughts. With clarity you feel and notice your thoughts to be just random noises like the noises you might hear outside (e.g. birds chirping). You don't "identify" with them in some sense. It's that sort of clarity and direct connection to reality which is ideal it seems. I'm working on trying to not fall in the trap of letting non-identification become an excuse to become dispassionate about life, rather high consciousness should be about exploring every aspect of my experience and being. But beyond high consciousness, there's still plenty for you to discover in some sense when we talk about the realm of the relative I think. And so thinking and etc are used in the domain of the relative, which is what we need.

@Ferdi Le SD seems to offer a very loose framework for understanding the why and what of human thoughts, emotions and behaviour. In it one gets the impression that people are the way they are because that's how nature is. There is no moralistic reason for why people are the way they are, they are just the way they are. If you want to stop getting triggered by people and having emotional clarity, meditation/yoga is always best.

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Watch this if you want bitches. I'm not watching it rn tho.

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I think for anyone who's decently put together, emotionally calm they have a choice in getting overwhelmed. I am not this however so my mind/emotions just become a bit neurotic when I don't like the vibes. Like all emotions and mental states you find yourself in, its all about what you cause yourself to feel. So you're in an atmosphere for example, something feels off/lacking/dry about the people you're talking to, and then your mind/body just enters fantasy mode in reaction. I think the thing which can frequently feel off/lacking is the sensation that many people around you are inauthentic, blocked or clunky in some way. I feel it goes beyond whether someone is warm or cold. No I don't think I'm able to manipulate people through charm and charisma. I'm a nerd.

@andyjohnsonman it's the paradox of enlightenment isn't it. They say desire/clinging is the root of suffering. But how does one stop desire if it is the case they must desire to stop desire to do so? It's a double bind. A way to frame this is to say, the reason you aren't better is the same reason you want to be better. We're constantly in this game of trying to one up ourselves or one up the universe, it's at the core of our ego. But if you ask "how do I stop trying to one up myself" my response might be "why do you want to know?". To increase your consciousness is to realise how you get in your own way. The more I meditate the more I feel this. Mindfullness in some sense is about trying to deliberately make an effort to make yourself open up more and more. Unconsciousness can be likened to needless muscle contraction. You just have to stop the activity that you yourself are doing. This is why high consciousness is described as being something effortless, although to try and get there it can feel anything but effortless as you meditate and make the effort to do emotionally difficult things. But that's normal.

@Joseph Maynorif there is an aspect of your psyche that that you want to repress in a stage blue manner, you will also be wary of that aspect in other people and will imagine its presence in places that it is not. I don't think this is a particularly profound nor is it about all general cases of projection. I mean projection is a way in which you attribute false qualities and characteristics to something. Negative judgements are all about ego and blah u know the rest of the story. What I've said so far is all too general/non-specific to contribute to this discussion I think. On a tangent, now that I think about it abstraction in its effort to cover all scenarios and generalities can "fail" to adequately give info about a specific situation. In trying to account for everything you in some sense account for nothing. Kinda reminds me of the sensation vs intuition dichotomy in MBTI, where both dimensions complement each other. Or reminds me of the universal/democratic/fair-minded cognitive axes vs Contextual/monarchical/goal orientated cognitive axes.

@RichardY Zoomers watch Tik Tok that automatically makes them catatonic and brain dead

I really liked this. "If you prepare for an attack from a specific direction, and it comes from some other direction, you have to withdraw from the direction in which you expected it and send your energy in another direction and that takes time. So what you do is go around with a mind of no expectation" Very applicable for life in general. A mirror reflects light instantly, it doesn't pause or delay. If you clap your hands, the sound comes out immediately. In such a way, it's possible for you to act without hesitation. "If you sit, just sit. If you walk, just walk; but whatever you do, don’t wobble." Since we aren't used to acting spontaneously, we do so unintelligently when we first try to do so.

It's hard to put into words, I think its sort of like a 6th sense that everyone has. Its probably at least partially explicable by some sort of subconscious processing your brain does. Yeah I think that the vibes you feel in a room are the sum of everyone there, but it's very easy to get mentally preoccupied/unsettled by one or two flavours there. How does it actually feel like? I think are two things going on. One thing that goes on is that I feel like I get a hunch/intuition of the temperament/emotions of another person. What sort of state they are currently are in.But the second thing which goes on is my reaction to what I feel. Like "this atmosphere is bad" or "I must get away from this person". Since I have anxiety, I can have a heightened emotional/physiological. Sometimes my physiological/emotional response is a few times larger than what I actually have a hunch about, so I wish to be careful that I'm not projecting false meanings to these experiences. I think when it comes to absorbing it, i think it's just that people are in different modes/frequencies and you can choose whether or not you want to artificially imitate that frequency and become more similar to that other person. Sometimes the choice isn't fully yours, and the vibe of a room can feel overwhelming. On the somewhat rare occasion you encounter a "frequency" you like it feels good to embrace the vibes someone else emits.

@Shadowraix yessssssssss top tier anime.

@Patrick Lynam This is an interesting topic. I've often wondered whether labels such as empath or sociopath are applicable to me. In the end I think no such labelling was useful for me. I don't know whether I'd use the label empath, but I'm maybe a "highly sensitive person". Absorbing people's vibes and the atmosphere has always been a very palpable experience for me. Like the mood and vibe of the room, yeah that's definitely a thing. However, I should be careful about the degree to which I project false meaning onto my on experiences. One thing I will say though, on the other hand I'm very capable of being ruthless. And I think all people can find both these opposing natures within them.

@Shadowraix Yeah there's basically no adequate way to convey direct experience so I just avoid using it sometimes because people won't get what you're saying

@123456789 To verify logic is true you would have to use something other than logic. So what can you do?

Could be "yellow", idk/idc but this video makes a lot of good points. Some people are ignorant to the fact that some religious fundamentalists actually believe in their religion wholeheartedly. They know for a fact that heaven and hell exist, and know for a fact how one is to get to each of them. Anyone who's been sucked into this type of thinking before can understand.